INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
limited to the predication of the term. There cannot be
any other. Similarly once the second term or the
predicate is stated it is clear that this involves the
concept of sannidhya or nearness. The concept of
sannidhya has again suffered at the hands of the
logicians in India. The concept is simply the statement
that the akanksa selects the appropriate term defined
by its predicate - nature. The remoteness of the term or
nearness of that term wither in a long winded sentence
or in time as separated by many hours as assumed in
the usual description of this condition of sannidhya,
seem to be utterly unintelligible as logical explanations.
The first term calls up the second and this second that
is called up is that which is in our experience
contiguous with the former. Thus we know that among
the laws of association we have contiguity, contrast,
similarity or striking quality words or terms becoming
associated in our consciousness. Sannidhya seems to
mean just contiguity or nearness or side-by-sideness.
Thus a substance will recall its quality or qualities, a
cause will recall the effect which is successive to it, and
the correlative terms seem to be called up. In this thus
comprises the basic meaning of sannidhya. To make it
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